So, I’ve been beavering away on my magnum opus – Twitter for Musicians – for weeks, and it’s finally getting published this week.

I’m therefore pleased when I find something to add to it in the Dailies.

This is a great post on the ever amazing CopyBlogger site that looks at some of the statistical data about sharing and retweets on Twitter.

Publishers can complain and wistfully wish for the good old days of blog links and Google juice, or they can adapt to the new reality Twitter represents. Getting your content “ReTweeted” on Twitter (i.e. getting people to repeat what you’ve said, usually along with a link) can drive significant quality traffic to your site, which in turn can boost your subscriber numbers.

So, how does ReTweeting happen, anyway? Well, here are the 5 factors you need to take into account when trying to get your content to spread virally on Twitter.